The Serial-Killer Detector
https://www.NewYorker.com/magazine/2017/11/27/the-serial-killer-detector Journalist finds subtle yet predictive crime patterns with the computer. Wonder if #DeepLearning would be helpful here? Probably not // #CrimeMap
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Batch Cloud Data Transfer for @AWScloud
https://AWS.amazon.com/snowball & https://AWS.amazon.com/snowmobile Snail mail trumps email for really large data. Interesting to calculate effective transfer rates as compared “Ethernet.” Surprised that I couldn’t find even crude estimates.
What Does @Tesla’s Automated #Truck Mean for Truckers?
https://www.Wired.com/story/what-does-teslas-truck-mean-for-truckers/ What does it mean for drivers?! I guess: much safer highways & fewer tailgated & terrorized motorists!
The Man Who Knows Whether Any Startup Will Live or Die
https://www.Wired.com/2015/01/growth-science Quote: “You can’t trust the model until you get all the intuition out of it.” Not sure I agree!
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“Swapping out your drafty old windows for new energy efficient ones could save you a bundle in the long-term, but not everyone wants to spend the time and money to retrofit their entire home or office building. Indow Windows offers inserts that can improve efficiency without the cost or hassle of replacing the windows entirely. “Some other startups have tried this, and some of the big guys are trying to respond, but there’s a lot more innovation required to pull this off than most people suspect,” Thurston says. “In a very short timeframe Indow has zoomed up to become the market leader.”
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His approach is based on turning various pieces of qualitative information—such as whether a company is a “first mover” or “fast follower” in a market—into quantitative data that he can plug into a spreadsheet. That requires a degree of human judgement, but this also requires a certain amount of rigor or consistency.
“You can’t trust the model until you get all the intuition out of it,” Thurston says. “The hard part of that is translating the qualification into yes or no questions,” he says. “How do you define the market? How do you define first mover?””
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GNU Privacy Guard v VeraCrypt – use w/ dropbox ? ease of install ?
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“VeraCrypt (Windows/OS X/Linux)
VeraCrypt is a fork of and a successor to TrueCrypt, which ceased development last year (more on them later.) The development team claims they’ve addressed some of the issues that were raised during TrueCrypt’s initial security audit, and like the original, it’s free, with versions available for Windows, OS X, and Linux. If you’re looking for a file encryption tool that works like and reminds you of TrueCrypt but isn’t exactly TrueCrypt, this is it. VeraCrypt supports AES (the most commonly used), TwoFish, and Serpent encryption ciphers, supports the creation of hidden, encrypted volumes within other volumes. Its code is available to review, although it’s not strictly open source (because so much of its codebase came from TrueCrypt.) The tool is also under constant development, with regular security updates and an independent audit in the planning stages (according to the developers.)”
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The Future of DNA Seq.
http://www.Nature.com/news/the-future-of-dna-sequencing-1.22787 Apps v Tech. QT: “Platforms for…#sequencing have changed dramatically…Yet the trajectories of other technologies…Internet, digital
photography…suggest…real disrupters will be the resulting applications, not the new tech”
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A “right to repair” movement tools up – If it’s broken, you can’t fix
it https://www.Economist.com/news/business/21729744-tractors-smartphones-mending-things-getting-ever-harder-right-repair-movement Is ownership actually another form of leasing?
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“The Advanced Protection Program incorporates a physical security key (a small USB or wireless device that costs around $25) to protect against phishing. The key, which participants need to buy themselves, uses public-key cryptography and digital signatures. Without the key, even someone with your password would be unable to access your account. Advanced Protection limits your Google data access to only Google apps and adds additional safeguards in the account recovery process to prevent someone from social engineering their way into your account. It also performs additional scans on files and attachments to ensure no malware is piggybacking on the download.”
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#Google’s New Super-Secure Email Is Designed For High-Profile Targets http://www.Slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/10/17/google_introduces_super_secure_email_to_prevent_high_profile_hacks_could.html Appears to be open to all. Anyone tried this?
Computers Are Taking Design Cues From…Brains
https://www.NYTimes.com/2017/09/16/technology/chips-off-the-old-block-computers-are-taking-design-cues-from-human-brains.html Bio-inspired computing, or the connection machine redux HT @EricTopol
Next 1B Mobile Users Will Rely on Video & Voice
https://www.WSJ.com/articles/the-end-of-typing-the-internets-next-billion-users-will-use-video-and-voice-1502116070 Will drive computing in new directions from text HT @ElementoLab